Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
The title of this seven minute TED Talk from Dan Cobley is "What physics taught me about marketing." Dan draws parallels between marketing and four major principals in physics.
1. Rearranging Newton's Second Law gives us acceleration equals force over mass. Meaning the larger a particle is, the more force it takes to change direction. ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
This visualization at i-am-bored.com puts the Mariana Trench into (some) perspective:
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Recently rediscovered ArXiv.org -- an online repository for free papers on Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Nearly a 100 percent of everything on the site makes me feel stupid so I just glean the site's very specifically focused papers for buzzwords and neato graphics, like the ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Run Run Run" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Beck covers the Velvet Underground & Nico album in one day. (via Brain Pickings)
The NIH sets a goal to complete a region-to-region map of the brain in five years by encouraging collaboration among neuroscientists.
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